Prof. E. Barclay-Smith

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PROF. EDWARD BARCLAY-SMITH, emeritus professor of anatomy in the University of London, died in London on July 5, aged eighty-three. Educated at Brighton College and at Downing College, Cambridge, he graduated M.A. and M.B. in 1890 and M.D. in 1893. Choosing anatomy as a career, he served as demonstrator to Alexander Macalister and was later University lecturer in advanced human anatomy at Cambridge. His faculty for close and accurate observation, his gift of graceful yet forceful exposition, and his remarkably sound and meticulous knowledge of general and topographical human anatomy, established his reputation as a teacher. In 1915 he was appointed professor of anatomy in the University of London, holding the chair at King's College until 1927, when, upon retirement, he was created emeritus professor. He served King's College and the University of London with selfless devotion, his professional eminence and administrative abilities earning fitting recognition. He became dean of the medical faculty in 1920, a member of King's College council in 1925, and a fellow of that College the same year: he represented King's College on the committee of management of its associated hospital, acted as chairman of the University of London Board of Studies in Human Anatomy, and was chairman and secretary of the Board of Intermediate Medical Studies. Much appreciated as an external examiner, he served in that capacity the Universities of Cambridge, Durham, Manchester and Birmingham, and was representative of the Royal College of Physicians upon the Conjoint examining board.